gain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 获得； 增加； 表等走快n. 增进， 增加； 收益，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All at once from the dark line of the horizon whither it retired to gain its momentum, the monster rushed suddenly towards the Abraham Lincoln with alarming rapidity, stopped suddenly about twenty feet from the hull, and died out not diving under the water, for its brilliancy did not abate but suddenly, and as if the source of this brilliant emanation was exhausted.
-- Several times the animal let us gain upon it. "We shall catch it!we shall catch it!"
-- But how shall we gain the bottom of the sea?"
-- "I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope."
-- "It will not be long before we gain the entrance of the tunnel."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her whole mind was a chaos, darkness breaking in upon it, and herself struggling to gain control with her will, as a swimmer struggles with the swirling water.
-- But even as she lay in fictitious transport, bathed in the strange, false sunshine of hope in life, something seemed to snap in her, and a terrible cynicism began to gain upon her, blowing in like a wind.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment I considered it absurd that I should need such a weapon to gain admittance into my own residence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What has it ever brought me but anxious days and sleepless nights; but loss of health and peace of mind, and gain of feebleness and sorrow!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
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